Programming FM, Part 1: Basic Pad Sound

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Posted by JmanNZ on Mar-18-2009 03:02:

lol, def not the techno donk ^^^

Ok, searching for examples has just made me realize how disorganized my music selection is, but I found a couple of examples.

The first is from Ronski Speed, this guy does some awesome stuff with FM. The stabs are great, and that sustained dynamic note before the stabs is awesome too (I tried it but it sounded like a cow, was funny but not what I was after). The next one is Havana Havana Genix remix. Its a very percussive track and the three consecutive stabs sound like FM. Basically they are solid and deep, metalic but not bell like.

Not sure if this is the same kind of thing that the others were thinking, but it atleast provides a starting point for discussion etc...

heres the link: FM stabs n donks.mp3 - 0.73MB

Posted by Zombie0729 on Mar-18-2009 03:30:

really cool man, maybe i can help with some of those big 80s sounds, i actually have a dx100 in the studio and can write down the algs for it and implement them into fm8

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Mar-18-2009 03:31:

Posted by 9Vibes on Mar-18-2009 10:58:

Great tutorial you got there , really got me started in to FM synthesis .

Posted by mysticalninja on Mar-19-2009 07:29:

Posted by wrzonance on Jul-15-2009 18:56:

Thank you for this.

I know what I'll be getting yelled at by my wife for spending too much time on....

Posted by evo8 on Jul-15-2009 20:46:

thanks JBJ, i got this free FM synth called piper2, so ill give it a go with that!

Posted by TXHARP on Jul-17-2009 02:19:

Thanks for the post.

When I have an opportunity this week, I am planning to duplicate the patch in LinPlug's Octopus to gain a better understanding of programming FM synths.

Posted by orTof�nChiLd on Jul-17-2009 04:28:

i can't even make a basic saw pluck, i got close mixing a sawtooth with a 6th formant and tweaking the ratio but didn't sound good.

Posted by cryophonik on Jul-17-2009 04:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Zombie0729
really cool man, maybe i can help with some of those big 80s sounds, i actually have a dx100 in the studio and can write down the algs for it and implement them into fm8

Not sure if you already know this, but FM7/8 will import DX patches as sysex files. The original sysex dumps for most of the DX/TX series are avialable over the web (e.g., http://www.kvraudio.com/banks.php?s=list&what=108). It might be easier to study the patches after importing them into FM8 because you can see all the settings in front of you on just a few screens, whereas, trying to find and write down all the various settings from the DX100 will require you to dive into every menu/submenu for each patch - probably not an enjoyable task on a DX machine.

Posted by johncannons1 on Jul-17-2009 05:03:

sticky..

in the master list?

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